At 12:42 PM 2/24/99 -0800, Tom Harding wrote:
>David Megginson wrote:
>
>> 1. Use a non-XML mechanism for separating XML packets -- that way,
>> there's not a tight dependency between the stream-handler and the
>> parser (the stream handler knows the bounds of each packet without
>> doing any XML parsing).
>
>What bit sequence would you use as a separator and how would you ensure
>that no conceivable encoding would produce it spuriously?
This may be going out on a limb, but what about:
200 OK HTTP/1.1
Content-type: text/xml
Content-length: ...
Nah, it'll never work.
wunder
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